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complodere

complodere [CL; cf. complaudere] , to beat (hands) together. b to fold (hands) together. c to knock together, clash or (?) compress. d to ‘knock together’, construct hastily. e (absol.) to beat the ground, stamp. complosis manibus irruunt super eum Ailr. Sanct. 792D; conqueritur natura gemens ‥, / complosis manibus dilaniata comam Neckam DS III 592; 1311 flexis genibus, complosis manibus, cum ejulatu et ‥ lacrimis Conc. Syn. 1308.  b genuflexionem, que major venia dicitur, que sc. sic fiat ut stando discoopertis prius manibus et complosis ante pectus veluti ad orandum [etc.] Cust. Cant. 403.  c †caulosus, inlisus GlC C 207 (cf. Erf. 2. 273. 38: †caplosus); 9‥ ~ere vel concutere, conlidere, cnyllan ‥, conplosis, flocende WW; frequenter ignis inde excuditur, hoc autem secundum ~entium naturam ictuumque differentiam Adel. QN 66 (cf. ib. 63: non modicus aer in visceribus terre complosus).  d erubescentia nuditatis operimentum quesivit et complosit perizomata [cf. Gen. iii 7] J. Godard Ep. 231; institit ergo malis conclusio judicialis / et male complosa displosit lite probrosa R. Cant. Malch. I 423.  e ter pede Silvano complodunt poplite vano R. Cant. Malch. I 423.

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